Hawaiian Shirts… why and where they came from.
This story takes place in a movie theatre a bunch of years ago. I was watching a movie called Patch Adams. The movie reminded me a lot of myself and how I like to take care of others and make people laugh. The movie was about half over when I noticed something and it was that when ever Robin Williams would come into a new scene and he would have a Hawaiian shirt on it would make me smile. I started to think about it and I came up with a great idea. I was going to go home and throw all my shirts out and buy nothing but Hawaiian shirts. I thought that if it made me happy it would do the same for other people. It would make them happy and they would say something to me and it would give me a chance to talk with them. Well I decided to go to the mall and buy some shirts and my wife was still not convinced. She told me not to throw out my shirts until I knew that it was the right thing to do. She is always one step ahead of me, but this time I had a real cool feeling that this was going to be the start of something new. So at the mall I bought 3 really nice Hawaiian shirts and took them home. In the morning we were headed to San dieago so my wife could meet up with her parents. So in the morning we headed to the airport and I had my first very cool Hawaiian shirt on and it made me feel great. It was black and had pineapples all over it. We stopped off at a restaurant in San Jose, California on the way to the airport and while we were there I went to the mensroom and when I was walking out this mean looking biker about twice my size was coming towards me and I moved out of the way. He stared at me and I thought he was going to say something mean to me, but instead he said “hey nice shirt man” and I smiled and walked out. When I got back to my table I told my wife what just happened and she smiled and said maybe I was right. Well we got to the airport and got on the plane and while we were in the air one of the attendants came by and said “hey nice shirt” and I was kinda blown away. We landed and headed off to the hotel to meet up with Jane’s mom and dad. When we got there we were checking in at the hotel and the lady behind the counter looked up at us and smiled and said “hey nice shirt”. I was beside myself, because each time someone had said nice shirt I got a chance to engage into a small conversation with each one. In the morning jane and her dad were headed to a prison and her mom and I headed on the train to Mexico. When we got back we headed to old town san dieago for some Mexican food. We ate at a great restaurant and while we were seated someone walked by and said “nice shirt” and all excited I told Jane’s folks what was going on. After dinner we decided to go to a play that was in this real nice round theatre. The play was called forever plaid. The play was really fun and while the play was going on I noticed one of the guys in the play every now and then would look up our way. I thought he knew someone around us. We were about ¾ the way up the round in the theater. Very close to the top row. When there was a intermission the guys in the play were making adjustments to the stage and the one guy who kept looking up into the crowd was now putting up some poles with strings of lights on them. I saw him look up in out direction and all of a sudden he was coming up the stairs to the top of the auditorium and he stopped at the end of our row. I was convinced he was coming up to say hello to someone sitting by us and he started excusing himself to move in front of all the people in our row. When he finally got to us he looked down at me and said “hey man that’s a real nice shirt”. I was totally convinced that this was no coincidence. This was the final confirmation that I was to go home and throw all my shirts away and just buy all Hawaiian. I have since that day wore only Hawaiian shirts and have almost 300 to date. Hey “nice shirt” is music to my ears!
MEXICUTED………….Piss bugs?
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Here in the tropics we get to encounter a wide variety of insects or bugs whatever you want to call them. Last week a darling little creature landed on my finger and took a piss…. I think he got scared. Well the next morning there was a big blister about the size of a dime on my finger. It was bugging me, so I gently popped it and the liquid went all over the top of my hand. No big deal… I washed it off, but the next day…. my finger and the top of my hand and my thumb were all blistered, bright red and itched. While this was healing I woke up to another blister on my other hand. Another blister that kept growing until it was see through transparent. I was concerned so I showed it to our manager Diana and she said be real careful not to pop it and get it anywhere on you because it will spread. (Where was she last week?) jane and I did a little surgery in the bathroom and popped it without getting it on me, or her. Well it’s 2 weeks later and the first pee attack is still red and the skin is still falling off and it seems to be getting worse on the top of my hand. The second pee party is still bright red and the skin is still falling off. It does not help to have to get keys and money out of my pockets, because it doesn’t seem to heal real fast rubbing off the little blisters. Knowing how my luck with medical stuff goes, you could say
“I’m a Ree Pee t offender.
This charming insect has acidic urine and relieves itself on you as a defense mechanism. If you touch the resulting blisters, the acid spreads to wherever you touch next.
I suggest just ……….don’t “touch yourself there”. ….. You know where!
Taco Tour Two San Pancho, Mexico
StandardOur first video of the restaurants that serve up the great tacos here in San Pancho went viral. Now we have just finished taco tour two. We plan on taco tour 3,4,and 5 soon. Stay tuned and get here and have some Tacos! www.robertosbungalows.com www.sanpancholife.com
Taco Tour of San Pancho, Mexico
StandardOk folks this was a quick golf cart tour right here in San Pancho. My friend Leroy and I had a blast eating tacos. There are many more tacos to taste, so we will be putting together another video. Brought to you by San Pancho Life and Roberto’s Bungalows.
Earl’s Tours around San Pancho
StandardAs the host, me, “Earl Miller”, will take the visitors on a personal golf cart tour of San Pancho. After a few hundred personal tours San Pancho Life and I have decided to bring it to everyone interested in a video tour. Many folks heading to San Pancho for their vacations can benefit from a visual show about where they are headed. We grabbed the video and jumped on the Big Red Roberto’s Bungalows golf cart. With the help of San Pancho Life‘s Drew and Sheri Hunt’s camera work and willingness to get a little crazy we took to the streets. We hope you like it and if you need a place to stay get in touch with www.lacasapina.com
A visual tour of San Pancho https://youtu.be/X3uKb6hBioE
Taco Tour 1
Taco Tour 2 https://youtu.be/UTDijanClwU
Taco Tour 3 https://youtu.be/IFO7_Sfierg
San Pancho Grocery Tour https://youtu.be/DhO2mfJ4RC8
Mural tour with Craig Downs. https://youtu.be/PkqzG8_DCJ0
La Patrona Polo tour. https://youtu.be/nzypOFypUSA
Circo De Los Ninos https://youtu.be/bJDUJ-pj7oE
I survived The La Cruz market
Living in San Pancho, Mexico and running our family owned boutique hotel Robertos bungalows has some big obligations. The most important one is directing folks to events like music, markets, sporting events and good restaurants.
My favorite place to send everyone who asks is the La Cruz market. One of the greatest markets in the Puerto Vallarta area is the La Cruz market. Right in the marina on the water. It’s a huge market with many vendors from every dip and chip you could possibly think up. Organic everything you can think of and things you would never even consider.
Fruits, juices, breads, salsas and one of the most talked about fresh fish markets anywhere. There is always great live music to make you put a smile on your face and a chance to shake your booty.
Now with all that said you have to remember I’m not the only person sending folks to the market. There are hundreds and hundreds of folks all walking together in a real crowded space. You really have to have patience and some time on your hand.
Me…. I’m not the most patient person you’ve ever met even though I think I am. I find myself wishing I had a stun gun for the group who stop to look at a bucket of strawberries and all 4 or 5 stop dead in their tracks and shut down the flow and everything comes to a complete halt. Not a thought that the hundreds of folks behind them really want to keep shopping. I look around and everyone has a smile on their face and just calmly wait for the folks to start moving again. Me…. I’m about ready to pull all my hair out and I don’t have any! I say under my breath …. Thanks for stopping right in front of me I can use the time out!
All in all it’s a great market and worth every minute you are there. Tonight we will be watching the Grammys having homemade sausage sandwiches on the best sourdough bread money can buy with fresh vegetables. Fresh Brazil and tomatoes on fresh mozzarella. And a blackberry pie for dessert. Real happy I went to the market, but even happier to be home.
I tap that all night long! At 65
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I TAP THAT THING ALL NIGHT LONG! At 65
I’ve been wanting to tell this story for quite some time. Beause I think I can help all men my age keep their wives smiling and happy all night long. I can’t believe how great my back feels in the morning after going at it about 5 times a night. Not to mention that my wife in the mornings tells me she slept like a baby. You should see the smile on her face in the morning when I bring her a cup of coffee to her bedside when she awakes. For years I have dreamed of getting up 5 times a night and keeping my wife happy. I wanted to try this for years, but I finally did it when my wife was away on a trip to see her parents.
I went into every mans fantasy dream store and looked around for the right thing to make all my evenings better and I found them. Boy did my eyes pop out when I looked up and there they were. There they were all lined up and there were so many different sizes and you know I was looking for the biggest. Hey I’m a male and I’ve always known that bigger is better. Another cool thing was that there were all kinds of colors to pick from light to dark. Some had big holes and some were small there were quite a few that were oblong. The thing that made me smile was the sign that said ONE TOUCH IS ALL YOU NEED.
I was so excited and I wanted to surprise my wife so that when she got back from her visit I had things ready for her first night back.
I can’t even begin to tell you our first evening when she got home being together was incredible….I was up at least five times and in the morning you could see from the smile on her face that she was very satisfied with my purchase.
It’s a miracle I tell you.
I got up every evening for years at least 5 times to pee and every time when I was done that “put the toilet seat down” thing would ring in my head. I would bend over with my hurt back and slowly lower the lid so I wouldn’t make any noise, because I didn’t want to wake my beautiful wife. I have such a bad back that not only would it hurt to bend over, but sometimes I would drop the lid and it would wake both her and I up. Trying to be the good husband it would send me back to bed wide awake trying to get back to sleep.
Now I get up to go pee and just TAP THAT THING and it slowly goes down and we both sleep like babies.
Men if you’re anything like me it’s time to get down to the Home Depot and get your own self closing toilet seat.
The greatest thing is you can tell all your buddies that you TAP THAT THING over and over all night long.
Mexico – Driving me crazy – You’re crazy
Well it’s been four (4) full years of living here at Roberto’s Bungalows in San Pancho and driving full time here in Mexico.
Let me tell you a story that I can’t get out of my mind. A friend and I decided to drive with the wives to San Sebastian which is up in the mountains a few hours away. My friend is a school bus driver and he asked if he could drive, so I thought it would be cool and let him drive.
We take off all happy and excited about our road trip and he tells us that a local Gringo friend from our village let him know some good tips on driving in the area. He tells us that she said if we come upon federal police and Military at road blocks to just drive through and wave and smile and don’t make too much eye contact. He says his friend informed him that they are looking for Cartel members and drugs and not grey haired old American tourist folks.
I get real scared thinking maybe he got his information from the wrong Wacky Gringo. We are having a nice drive when I see up in front of us a road block stop in both directions. There are about 20 military men with machine guns on both sides of the road all looking at our car and there is a big Military truck with a dude with a huge gun mounted on the back of a pickup pointed at the cars going by. My friend Dan says “ok everyone smile and wave and I’ll just drive through.”
Thoughts of Bonnie and Clyde and millions of bullets piercing my body race through my head and I think I passed out, but the next thing I know is we are past the stop. I do remember that I was waving and smiling like I was a little insane thinking it might help. I told Dan that maybe if there was another road stop that we should probably stop. He said NO we’re good.
In about 20 minutes we approach another one and this time there is a cop with a machine gun standing in the middle of the lane with a red flag signaling us to pull over along with the huge truck with the massive gun pointing at us and about 20 military police and there is nobody smiling.
Dan says again “ok we are not going to stop, so smile big and wave.” I know from the look on the guys face with the flag trying to get us to pull over that we are probably going to die in a flury of machine gun bullets. Dan goes around the guy and pulls into the oncoming lane and is waving and smiling and telling us to do the same and quick. The machine gun cop is waving his flag and looking pissed and we go right on by. Dan says as he speeds up don’t look back they are watching us, but they aren’t following us.
I must have not eaten any breakfast, because I didn’t crap my pants, but I did express my thoughts about how dumb I thought that last non stop was to Dan. He just smiled and said hey they probably thought we were just a car full of old stupid Americans that didn’t understand what was going on.
Well the rest of the ride I was terrified that the next road check was probably going to be the end of our lives. I knew they had probably called ahead and said “when you see the black Izuzu SUV with the four crazy waving Americans just start shooting, as they have gone through two stops without stopping.”
Well I’m here to tell you there were no more stops and we got to San Sebastián unharmed physically, but damaged mentally for life.
Do not do what we did! Stop and say hi! They are there to help fight crime!
I have since been through a few stops and have never been pulled over. They just smile and wave you through!
The Royal Family headed to San Pancho?
La Patrona Polo Club open soon!
I never really knew how awesome polo was until one evening a group of our guests at Roberto’s Bungalows were heading to a match at the field in town and asked us to join them. I was hooked the first game at La Patrona Polo Club
I have been taking folks from Roberto’s Bungalows out to the huge new project since it began two seasons ago on tours in the Roberto’s custom golf cart about three days a week and have seen the most beautiful transformation of land one could lay eyes on.
I thought polo was a game where the rich Prince rode around on horses and waved at the Royal family in their pretty hats. I couldn’t have been any further from the truth about the very exciting game of Polo.
The new fields are almost done and we are talking International games. There is a regulation field which if you don’t know is 3 football fields long and a football field and a half wide. The game is kinda like NHL and NFL combined with horses running at top speeds and men and women swinging big long clubs and aggressively going for the ball (and I believe the other players heads) and the goal posts with one thought… WINNING!
I am hooked on the game and wish I was 40 years younger and out there riding and playing this high stress game.
I was invited to watch a few games yesterday on the new field. I was so excited and humbled by the excitement of the huge new field and the hospitality of the people who are putting this whole thing together.
The horses are far beyond beautiful and everyone from the spectators to the riders seems so happy to be involved in this sport.
The people in charge beam with excitement and you can see by the smiles on their faces how proud they feel about this new project. I will be one of the very regular visitors with a big smile on my face during most of the International Games! I even plan on turning my Hawaiian shirts in during the games and wearing the Polo attire. Might even buy me a pair of the awesome players leather boots.
Yup I’m hooked and you will be too.
There is also a huge 4 star restaurant for your dining and drinking pleasures. The restaurant decks overlook the three different fields. The International field, the smaller field for games right at the restaurant and a beautiful night field with stadium lighting on the one side of the restaurant. There is one more field for the jumping horse shows.
This is a huge Eco project and I as a San Pancho resident and a member in our family business I couldn’t be more proud of this wonderful project.
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San Pancho……From bracelets to Falafels at the market
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San Pancho Farmers Market Opens for its Winter Season
Every Tuesday – 9 AM till 1PM or so…..
Area farmers come to the market with organic fruits and vegetables, and many vendors with handmade crafts and lots of different excellent food choices!
San Pancho has kicked off their farmers market for the season, joining other municipalities in the Riviera Nayarit area hosting farmers markets this winter. San Pancho’s market joins other markets such as Sayulita, La Cruz, Bucerias, and Lo de Marcos.
This is the second year for San Pancho’s “Mercado del Sol” farmer’s market held in Plaza del Sol. The market opens every Tuesday morning at 9:00 AM, offering a day of market shopping during the week when most other local farmers markets are held on Saturday.
The Mercado del Sol farmers market currently hosts 70 venders selling organic and handmade foods, arts, fruits and vegetables from the region, and of course live music entertainment to get you in the mood for shopping in the traditional open-air markets that are best experienced in Mexico.
San Pancho is my home and a great place to live, as the peace and tranquility in the town is still uncompromised. San Francisco (San Pancho) is a unique spot, where pristine white beaches meet jungle green, and old Mexico meets a new international fusion.
A great place to stay in San Pancho is Roberto’s Bungalows
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